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  1. Path: cup.portal.com!Gemini2
  2. From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
  4. Subject: Re: Font Sample Printing Utility?
  5. Date: 11 Mar 1996 21:00:10 -0800
  6. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  7. Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
  8. Message-ID: <150902@cup.portal.com>
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  14. >
  15. > Michael Loader wrote:
  16. >
  17. >>The AmigaOS, unlike MacOS and Windows, lacks a good font standard.
  18. >
  19. >        I can understand what you're saying; but with PostScipt seeming to
  20. >be the defacto standard for many desktop publishing needs on the Amiga,
  21. >I find it surprising that there's not a simple program to print out
  22. >those fonts.  Especially on all of those Amiga Fonts CDs out there, it
  23. >would be nice if they had included such a program.  <g>
  24. >
  25. >
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  27. > Mike    ////\             ironman@four.net
  28. > Gratis ////\\\ A3000/030@25/10 Megs RAM/Supra 14.4K
  29. >       //// \\\\ Workbench 3.1_____  __      _
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  34.  
  35. I would much prefer True Type/Type 1 to be the defacto standard. There's
  36. more of them around that print correctly.
  37.  
  38.  
  39.  
  40. Gary Peake                "Mystic Meg"             Fellow AMIGA Users:
  41. -------------------------------------------------
  42. Gemini2@cup.portal.com   Portal Communications   | TEAM AMIGA is a grassroots
  43. 1:106/7512.1             Club Amiga-Houston,Tx   | movement designed to provide
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  45.     Proud supporter of Amiga Technologies        | to AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, and
  46.      Asst Co-ordinator ---> *TEAM AMIGA*         | to all AMIGA vendors.
  47. -------------------------------------------------
  48. AND Central American Exporter!
  49.  
  50. ... The reliability of any computer is inversely proportional
  51.      to the significance of the people watching it.
  52.  
  53. -*- ASTG 1.9
  54.